3rd Grade Literacy: How Much Progress Is Your State Making?

Released Monday by the policy think tank New America, the report didn't find any states that met all of its standards for "running" toward success—that is, putting state policies in place to fully support early literacy. That's not terribly surprising since the country as a whole does quite poorly at getting our children reading on grade level by the end of 4th grade; only about 33 percent meet that bar as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.